Australia to cancel Seasprite purchase

www.flightglobal.com...

Australia's recently elected Rudd government is to cancel the long-troubled Kaman SH-2G(A) Super Seasprite naval helicopter programme.

"After careful consideration of all the issues involved, the government has decided that it intends to cancel the project," defence minister Joel Fitzgibbon says in a statement issued on 5 March

and so the cancellations begin - although this one was on the cards for technical not political reasons - 10 years of waiting to fix the avionics is bloody aweful

It's about time this decision was made.
Even Brendan Nelson ( Now Opposition leader but Defence Minister last year) wanted to can the deal back in May last year (If you can believe the Channel 9 news that is)

Either way though it was just taking way too long, considering the original plan of 2001 deliveries blew out by 10 yrs.

just seen it was added to the other thread so lets let this one die